It's been a bad year with the dragster. lol I have been fighting issues with the car not running clean banging going down the track. Well finally we have the miss fixed! Brayden playing on his CP3 test stand found out that a LBZ computer cuts the injectors at 5300 rpm. That was part of the miss. I leave the line at 4500 and when you would put more power it would flash up pretty high. Also my injectors which are from my truck were junk. I had them tested at Columbus Diesel and lets just say they were laughing when I talked to them. They have had a long life since 2006 so I guess I can't complain. Now the fixes. Brayden went into EFI Live and added two tables (patch) so the ecm would fuel past 5300. Brayden's tuning and now I think its 6000. New Fleece stroker fuel pumps. New 250 over S&S injectors with body modes it run like a beast. First pass on the burnout it sounded clean and mean! I think it sounds pretty bad a$$ at 5600 on the burnout! lol Big injectors, big cam(SOCAL) and big pumps with mods to make fuel past 3400 rpm gives it a cool sound at full song. Now the bad!!! The first pass I lifted early in the run to get some data and make sure I could stop on the short track. I run a 5.00 at 120 mph BUT it run clean. Only a .1 delay on the shift but run clean. 2nd pass I changed nothing and was going to run a full pass and should have been a mid to low 4.80. On that track it would be a very good pass. Robinson could only run a 4.88. BUT just like the rest of the season about 500 ft it dropped a couple of cylinders and run a 5.0 again. When I got out of the car there was water everywhere!!! I looked and my radiator cap was missing. That's not good! lol After a short what the he!! I found that it had lifted 4 injectors and torched a hole in the head into a coolant passage. Just my luck. Now I have a set of junk heads to go along with all the other stuff. I will say that those SOCAL heads have been good to me. I bought them from Guy in 2008 and they have been problem free until now which is no fault of them! They have had a good life. I guess i'm going to try a set of stock heads to finish out the year and get it going again. I'm just out of money and getting burned out. I would like to thanks everyone that has helped with the car. Powerflow exhaust for there support. All the guys at Fleece Performance for there help and never give up lets get it going drive. I feel like family every time I'm at there shop! I think I'm a long lost brother. I would also like to thank Guy at Socal for parts that last and last. Fuelab fuel pumps, Nytrex nitrous,Mahle and Isspro. Without great companies it would not have happened. Now I need a weekend away and with the family camping or boating or something that doesn't involve racing. lol I need a break then I guess I will tear it apart and begin fixing it again for the last NADM race and the World Finals in TX. What a year.
